Physics - Experiments

aarond280

Can anyone tell me how to do really well in the physics experiments, (A1 standard)

decisions

Do all the questions that have come up, and think about sources of error and how could you reduce them. For example acceleration due to gravity (free fall) your sources of error could include parallax error when measuring the distance with a meter stick, to reduce your % error use a large distance, but you also have to take into account air resistance meaning you don't want your distance being too large.

YoursSincerely

http://thephysicsteacher.ie/leavingcertphysicsrevision.html

This guys notes are really helpful, especially his stuff on experiments, , be able to draw the diagrams for each experiment and for questions with a graph make sure you know the way the graph goes, Doing a graph right is easy marks so make sure you can do them well, don't forget to label axis and stuff, those little things are valuable marks

tommullane

Any idea where to get notes on demonstrations? Dont know which are important

diarmo06

Buy/borrow/steal the red "investigating physics" book. Never found a Q through papers/mocks/samples that it hadn't fully right! The real world physics book is just horrid, all curriculum science books are for some reason..